FSDKaggle2018 is composed of audio content collected from Freesound.
Freesound is a sound sharing site developed and maintained by the Music Technology Group [1]}.
At the time of writing, Freesound hosts more than 380,000 sounds uploaded by its community of users.
Freesound content is very heterogeneous, including sounds from a wide range of real-world environments, from musical and human-generated sounds to animal sounds or artificially generated sound effects.
The authors of the sounds uploaded to Freesound are asked to provide some basic metadata (e.g., tags, title and textual descriptions). This metadata is then used for searching and browsing and is also very valuable for research purposes.
All the content in Freesound is released under Creative Commons licenses which facilitate its sharing and reuse.
Since sounds are uploaded by thousands of users across the globe, recording scenarios and techniques can vary widely. We hypothesize that this fact makes Freesound content representative of real-world situations.
